Orla Gartland’s songwriting is filled with warmth and humour. Gut-punch couplets sit alongside brilliantly witty quips, and the Irish musician creates tracks filled with personal realisations that lay herself bare, while always remaining in on the joke. Since first emerging on YouTube in her early teens, the Dublin-born, London-based artist has won over fans with this personable brand of song- writing. From the earnest admission on 2015’s fizzing nugget of Two Door Cinema-inflected indie-pop ‘Lonely People’ (the titular track of one of Gartland’s earliest EPs) to the conversational delivery of lines like “Life is short until it’s not/Honestly, it’s kinda long” in ‘You’re Not Special, Babe’ – a highlight of 2021 debut record Woman On the Internet – her razor-sharp pen has…

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